Indigenous women and climate change

Out of the approximate 370 million total indigenous peoples in the world, 185 million are estimated to be women. Indigenous peoples are disproportionately suffering from a multitude of discrimination and oppression based on their ethnicity, location and economic status; rendering them part of the poorest of the poor, most politically disempowered and culturally and socially discriminated. In addition to this, indigenous women are suffering from triple discrimination; for being women, being indigenous and as indigenous women and are, subsequently, obstructed from exercising their individual and collective rights. This article discusses the roles and contributions as well as the challenges and concerns of indigenous women.